Goodenia quasilibera


Goodenia quasilibera is a species of flowering plant in the family Goodeniaceae and is native to Western Australia and South Australia. It is an ascending to erect herb with lance-shaped leaves at the base of the plant, sometimes with toothed edges and racemes of yellow flowers with brownish lines.

Description

Goodenia quasilibera is an ascending to erect herb that typically grows to a height of up to with simple and glandular hairs. The leaves at the base of the plant are lance-shaped, long and wide, sometimes with toothed edges. The flowers are arranged in racemes up to long, with leaf-like bracts, each flower on a pedicel long. The sepals are elliptic, long, the petals yellow with brownish lines and long. The lower lobes of the corolla are long with wings about up to wide. Flowering mainly occurs from August to January.

Taxonomy and naming

Goodenia quasilibera was first formally described in 1992 by Roger Charles Carolin in the Flora of Australia from a specimen collected by Alex George in the Thomas River valley in 1960. The specific epithet means "almost free", referring to the sepals that are almost free from the ovary.

Distribution

This goodenia grows in sandy soil and clay on flats and occurs in disjunct populations between Meekatharra and Cape Arid in Western Australia and the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia.

Conservation status

Goodenia quasilibera is classified as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.